A Royal Secret
Chapter 3: The Rise of a Dark Empire
Dash and Lilly made it to their house, panting, but not from exhaustion; they were panting from fear and concern about their family. Dash quickly opened the door, surprising their parents.
"Mom! Dad!" Dash and Lilly yelled out, panting and their faces still full of shock."
"Dash, Lilly, what's going on?!" Amy asked her children in concern, hugging them close and waiting for them to calm down and answer her.
"Turn on the TV! Now!" Lilly exclaimed, rapidly pointing at the TV. Sonic grabbed the remote in his haste and he and Amy gasped in shock, when he saw the news on TV, showing the kingdom falling apart and being destroyed by dark forces and lightning was flashing there, even though there's no reports for rain.
Sonic looked closely at the lightning, then his chest began to tighten, a pit began to form in his stomach and rage began to boil.
"It's...him..." was all the blue hedgehog said, growling at the storm shown on TV.
"Him? Him who?!" Lilly and Dash yelled out simultaneously and really confused, as lightning flashed in the sky on the TV screen and suddenly, their TV went into static as a transmission came through to them, then the two adult hedgehogs heard an all to familiar voice, they thought they'd never, ever hear from again.
"Hey Blue and Rose...long time, no see hasn't it?"
"Scourge..." Sonic said in malice, as he saw the green hedgehog with an evil grin on his TV. Scourge has gotten older as well, which surprised Sonic a bit, since Scourge was destroyed by Sonic all those years ago.
He was wearing blue ripped jeans, he still had his old shoes and red shades as well. The only difference is that Scourge's jacket is a bright orange and that the evil doppelganger's quills are longer and messier than usual.
The green hedgehog was being shown on TV, lazing about on his father's throne and wearing his father crown as well, smirking, as if he wanted to taunt Sonic that he has just taken over the castle.
"Miss me?" Scourge taunted, lifted up his shades and showing his sharp teeth.
"But, how is that possible?!" Amy exclaimed in shock, gripping her hammer tightly and growling at the sight of the Anti in front of them and trying to hide hers and Sonic's kids from him.
"Yeah Scourge, the last we saw you was nothing but a pile of dust and shades!" Sonic added, glaring at his evil side.
"Yeah, I know that for a fact blue..." the green hedgehog answered back, smugly shooting an evil grin at the couple, then he saw the two smaller blue hedgehogs, hiding in fear behind Amy.
"And I've seen you've been watering your Rose, Blue..." he added with a dark chuckle, thus getting under Sonic's skin as well.
"Stop changing the subject, Scourge! Now answer me!" Sonic told him, getting really irritated with him. "How are you back?! And what have you done to my family?!"
"Oh Sonic, you've always been the killjoy...I see you haven't changed after 15 years..." Scourge answered his counterpart with a sigh, then decided to tell him.
"And to answer your first question...I had a little bit of help..."
"From who?!" Amy asked him, getting irritated as well. Scourge just looked away off screen, with a smirk.
"Come on out, cutie..." was all he said, then a mysterious figure came on screen. Amy and Sonic gasped loudly as they saw a pink hedgehog like her! She had her quills long, like Amy and she was dressed in a black tank top, a dark red vest, a dark red headband, a black miniskirt, fishnet stockings and gloves, black and white boots and Queen Aleena's crown.
"R...Rosy!?" Sonic and Amy exclaimed, not believing the pink hedgehog is a now matured version Amy's psychotic anti.
"In the flesh..." Rosy told them, with a wicked grin on her face, as she sat down on Scourge's lap, smirking at them from the camera. But, what really threw them off...is Scourge and Rosy kissing each other, passionately!
Much to the disgust of their kids Dash and Lilly, who still have no idea what's going on.
"Wait, since when are you two together?!" Sonic asked Scourge, still stunned at what just happened and seeing Rosy.
"Heh, me and Scourgey are much more than dating, Blue." Rosy told him, with a grin on her face. "Believe it or not...me and him are married too..."
Sonic and Amy were stunned to hear that as well, because back in the past Scourge was terrified of Rosy, because of her psycho mindset. But, now they're married?!
"Surprised?" the pink anti told them, with a smug smile on her face. "Well, I should tell you how I brought back my husband..."
Flashback
15 years ago...
A mysterious figure grabbed Scourge's glasses and ran off into the forest...
"One day Sonic, you and your family will know the true meaning of despair..." A girl's voice called out, as she slicked away into the bushes and headed for an abandoned building. The figure then turned on the lights, revealing herself to be Rosy Rascal, but much more older, in fact, she was exactly around Amy's age for some mysterious reason.
The older Rosy Rascal began to look at the glasses in her hands and put them on the table, which was covered with a load of scrolls and books. The walls were hung up, with other scrolls and a Scourge poster or two; Rosy's still obsessed with him...just a tiny little bit...
"Don't worry, Scourge...Little do they know there's a way to get you back, it'll take me some time however..."
Flashback end
"And a couple of months later, I resurrected Scourge, we eventually hit it off and got hitched." Rosy finished with a smirk, then she summoned her green, spiky hammer in her hands, still sitting on Scourge's lap. "That answer your question?"
"As for what happened to your pathetic family..." Scourge began, but chuckled. "...Let's just say...this kingdom's former rulers are at vacation..."
"Scourge! If you hurt them...!" Sonic began to growl loudly, then Amy gasped as she saw Sonic's fur turn a darker blue and his eyes beginning to go from opaque to changing into transparent."
"You'll what?" the green hedgehog taunted him, with a smirk. "You're 100,000 miles away from us, hedgehog."
"And even if you run, you still won't be able to get in the kingdom." Rosy added with a smirk. "We've already sealed away Mobotropolis, to prevent anyone from entering and exiting the kingdom."
Sonic growled again, watching Scourge and Rosy rub it in that they were already winning a war that they just started.
"And also, we're not stopping there..." Scourge added. "Why just stop at a kingdom...when you can take over the whole world?!"
"You'll never get away with this Scourge!" Sonic yelled at him, getting even more angry and annoyed at him.
"Then don't just sit there, Blue...try and stop us!" Scourge told him, with a laugh as the transmission finishes. As soon as it was finished, Sonic punched a wall hard, not caring that he might've broke something.
"Scourge...you will pay for this!" Sonic yelled out, with tears in his eyes. Dash and Lilly looked at their father; they've never seen him like this before and seeing him so sad like that, dampened their spirits.
"D...Daddy?" Lilly asked him in concern, Sonic looked at her and then went down on his knees and hugged Lilly close to him.
"Oh Lilly..." her father said, in between his sobs. Amy then went to hug him, as well as Dash, trying to comfort him.
1 hour later, Sonic and Amy were sitting on the couch with Dash and Lilly, as they prepare themselves to tell their son and daughter what's going on.
"OK kids, well to start off...You knew I was once king of Mobotropolis?" Sonic asked them. Dash and Lilly nodded in agreement.
"Well, 15 years ago...Scourge, my Anti, injured your grandfather and made him unable to continue ruling, so I became king to protect the kingdom." Sonic began.
"But, what did Scourge want back then?" Dash asked him, confused.
"He...he wanted Amy, your mother to become his queen..." Sonic confessed, then heard them gasp in shock.
"What?!" Lilly exclaimed in shock, while her twin just shook his head in disbelief.
"It's true. Scourge apparently had a thing for me back then..." Amy said, with a sigh.
"So, what does Scourge want this time?" Dash asked his mother and father in concern and confusion.
"I don't know this time..." Sonic admitted to him, then gave his son and daughter a look. Lilly and Dash looked into his eyes and they both saw a spark in his eyes, but...something darker was lurking in there as well...
"But Dash and Lilly, I will do everything in my power to protect you two and your mother." he told them, solemnly. "But you two have to promise me to look after each other...can you do that?"
"Yes Daddy, we will." Lilly told him, firmly nodding and holding his hand.
"Yeah, we promise dad..." Dash added, with a firm nod as well. "But dad...how are you going to save Mobotropolis this time?"
"I don't know kids, but...I'll find a way to save our family and our kingdom..." the blue hedgehog told the smaller blue ones, with a nod.
Meanwhile...
Scourge was sitting on his throne, formulating the next phase of his ultimate plan, then Rosy came in the room, with a smirk on her face.
"Oh Scourgey..." she called out, in a seductive voice. Scourge looked up and smirked at his queen.
"Hello there, sexy." he greeted her.
"Hey, I've been busy checking out our new castle and I gotta say...this is a perfect place for us." Rosy told him, as she sat on his lap with a smirk. "Just needs a little...redecorating..."
"Don't worry, Rosy...we'll have plenty of time for that...after we finally take down Sonic, his friends and pathetic family once and for all!" Scourge told his queen, with a smirk, then the two began to tongue wrestle and make out, passionately.
"So Scourgey, how do you plan on taking down that pesky Sonic?"
"Easy...Let's just say...Sonic won't know what sliced him, until it's too late..."
"I love the way you talk evil..."
"And I love the way you treat the king of evil..."
"Ahem...!" A voice called out, Scourge and Rosy looked up and saw two figures there, staring at them.
"What are you guys doing?" a male voice asked them.
"Nothing." The two hedgehogs told him.
"What are you two doing here anyway, I though you'd be out looking for Princess Sonia and Prince Manic." Scourge stated.
"Unfortunately...they've gotten out of Mobotropolis..." a female voice, deadpanned.
"What?!" Scourge exclaimed, in shock and anger. "They got away?!"
"Hey, it's not our fault! You told us to stay behind after you invaded!" the female voice yelled back, equally angry.
Scourge calmed down a little, because he recalled doing that for the two beings.
"Alright...now I have a job for you two..." he instructed them. "I want you to go out and hunt them down before they find Sonic and take some of our minions with you both."
"And what do we do after we find them?" the male voice asked him.
"Easy...kill them...kill them both!" Scourge told them, with a evil smile and laugh. The two beings laughed with him and nodded, accepting their mission.
"Well be back...with their heads..." the female figure said, as she and the male figure left the throne room, with Scourge and Rosy looking on, with proud smiles.
"I can't wait to see this..." Rosy said, with a wicked grin, then looked at Scourge. "You sure they can handle this?"
"Don't worry babe, after all...they've been taught by the best of the worst..."
Rosy then sighed in happiness, as she and Scourge began to tongue wrestle each other again, kissing passionately and making out, like crazed weasels.
Welp people...here's Chapter 3! Enjoy!